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Microsoft's $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts a Full AI Workstation in a Portable Chassis
The Surface Laptop Ultra, shipping October 16, runs on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip and can hold up to 128 GB of shared memory, letting one machine handle gaming, local AI models, and professional creative work at the same time.
Apple researchers taught an AI coding assistant to remember what actually worked last time
A new memory system from Apple ML Research lets AI coding agents carry useful knowledge from one work session to the next, rather than starting from scratch every time.
AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.
Meta will slash your AI bill by 95% if you let it study how you use the model
The company's new Muse Spark model offers a steep discount in exchange for access to your usage data. A straightforward trade, but worth understanding before you opt in.
A Tiny AI Model Just Got a Big Boost With 100 Training Steps and a Free GPU
A new public guide shows how to make a small language model noticeably better at following output instructions, using only free computing tools and about 500 training examples.
This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between Sessions
A new open-source tool called funes lets AI coding assistants remember past decisions, failed experiments, and the reasoning behind your code, even after you close the session and reopen it days later.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinks Harder, But That Extra Effort Will Cost You More
Same price per token as its predecessor, but Google warns the new model uses more tokens to get better results. Here is what developers and everyday subscribers need to know.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third new AI model in six weeks
A standard version for coding and everyday tasks, plus a security-focused variant, both priced at half the regular rate until the end of 2025.
Hugging Face Releases 207 Speed-Boosted AI Building Blocks That Run Directly in Your Browser
A new open-source toolkit lets AI models run faster on your own device, without sending data to a server. Head-to-head tests on Apple M4 hardware show speeds more than double those of the current standard.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor's access to its AI models after SpaceX buys the coding tool
OpenAI says it cannot trust Elon Musk's companies to follow its rules, so it will shut down Cursor's access to its models on 12 November 2026.
Google is forcing Android apps to use less memory, and AI chip shortages are why
A global shortage of memory chips, driven by AI data centres gobbling up supply, is about to change the rules for every app on your Android phone.
Gradio Launches Visual AI Pipeline Builder That Doubles as a Live API
gr.Workflow lets developers snap AI tasks together on a drag-and-drop canvas and get working code and web endpoints out the other side, instantly.
GLM-5.3 Opens Up to Developers at the Same Price as Its Predecessor
Chinese startup Z.ai's new frontier model is now available via API, matching the old per-token rate while scoring higher on independent benchmarks. But a quirk in how the model writes means your bill may still rise.
Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.
AI Hijacks, Fake Fixes and a Developer Tool Bug: This Week's Security Roundup
A batch of roughly twenty smaller threats, including a new attack on AI agents, a scam hiding malware inside a public blockchain, and a flaw in a popular coding tool, shows where attackers are pushing right now.